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This Week’s Picks Gross Spelling Errors Turn Me Off
“Here are a few other word issues that come up in sex writing that throw me off and drive me crazy.”
L’Artiste
“I want time to sip my whisky, to drink you in as you unveil yourself, as you offer your body to my steady gaze.”
The best of this week’s sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
This Week’s Picks April Showers Bring May Flowers: Part II“As mentioned earlier, this is one of the biggest hurdles to overcome; this is also where mind over matter comes into play.”
Au revoir
“In the life of an eclectic slut, however, these are all warning signs.”
Ode to Anal: Why?
“Really, for me, it was the first, and one of my foremost, all encompassing sexual acts.”
Bodypainted stilletoes may be the kinkiest thing ever.
April 23rd, 2008 by Sam Sugar
New York Magazine’s current article-visment on foot-health and shoes contains (un?)intentional foot-fetish porn so hot that even I, who’s never put a toe in his mouth, recognize its potency.
Make-up artists don’t always deserve the appellation. John Maurad and Jenai Chin do.
When you’re done browsing porn posters on Flickr–I know you–enjoy the refreshing visual lime of this vintage Soviet erotica.
I don’t know if this stuff was underground, produced in limited quantities for party officials, or held up as a proud example of soviet sexual technology. It was certainly well shot. Any Russian readers care to elucidate?
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This Week’s Picks Fellatrices: C-u-n-n-i-l-i-n-g-u-s
“Yep, sounds like the boyfriend needs a lesson,” she affirmed. “You just need to show him where to lick.”
In Plain Sight
“She was laughing flirtatiously and he had a look of a cat that’s about to get the cream.”
Succor.
“The act of suspension removed me from my ego and placed me at the still point.”
See also: Fleshbot’s Sex Blog Roundup each Tuesday and Friday.
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“His hand slid around the back of my neck and pulled me close – easily, no effort at all, letting me feel the power of his arms and the warm puff of his breath against my ear.”
It was a long night…
“I gasped as he slowly pushed in one finger, slippery with oil, and began to wiggle it and spread me open.”
Sex Worker Confessions: Gracie Passette
“But underneath it all, sex workers are all about bridging, in body & soul, word & deed, the irreconcilable differences between realities and desires.”
See also: Fleshbot’s Sex Blog Roundup each Tuesday and Friday.
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The best of this week’s blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #116? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the link list within a week and you’re all set.
This Week’s Picks Debauched nothings
“You promised me you’d give me your cock.”
Sex Trophies
“Inside the drawer are two pair of panties.”
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This Week’s Picks A Different Kind Of Authority For Sex Bloggers
“As we sex workers, sex bloggers, and adult business folks swim in our ponds or spin in our micro universes & connect with others, we continue to build authority.”
“At one point she was straddling Girlfriend’s right leg, grinding her thigh against Girlfriend’s clit through her jeans.” Of sex and strippers
Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge
Her comments were something to the effect of, “No one wanted to see me twirl with tassels ~ on fire or not ~ when some girl was going to sit on stage and insert things into herself.”
The best of this week’s blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
This Week’s Picks Sex Worker Solidarity: Audacia Ray
“Visibility on our own terms and the ability to uses our voices (and other mediums of expression) are key to the progress of sex worker’s rights.”
So Many Men, So Few Sluts
“Everyone wants to avoid generalizations about men and women, yet they’re too powerful to ignore.”
This Time
“She had That Look, and despite my earlier fatigue, I knew what was coming.”
When Natural Doesn’t Feel Natural at All
“I’d kept mine neatly trimmed for so long, then cleanly shaved, that I couldn’t remember what I look like in full and natural form.”
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This Week’s Picks From virgin cocksucker to blowjob queen
̶I love to play and tease with my hand and tongue, lightly licking, sometimes using my panties or another soft fabric to run across the shaft.”
Interlopers
“Oh yes, I’ve seen it all before, I know what you’re here for.”
Old Friends
“His cultured voice warm, approving, promising; it makes me wet every time, an uncontrollable Pavlovian response.”
To call this image offensive might seem churlish, but whoever arranged that fight clearly let the guy sweat off water in order to make the weigh-in.
You might also note that a topless model’s being punched in the face by an Aryan heavyweight in front of an audience of zombies. To those people I say ‘Pish posh!’.
That’s how I roll. Pish to the motherfucking posh.
I’d like to tell you this is an ad for a prominent Russian cosmetic dentist. It’s not, but feel free to publicize the lie. This is a really interesting concept for a porn set. Shame almost no one in porn’s got the brains/talent to do it.
Heidi Klum is the supermodel most responsible for putting the ‘I’ into ‘MILF’. I’d rather grate my glans than risk it near Kate Moss, and Heidi gets extra points for being German, married to a black guy and able to scream commands in perfect high German while marching around the bedroom in stockings and the top-half of an SS uniform.
She’s nearly nude in this month’s Max in case you were wondering.
Christian Friis shot my favorite set in the latest S Magazine (which is still, by miles, the best porn magazine available) taking the old idea of tying sex to a story and mashing it up with a chunk of ‘Sabotage’ and a sprinkling of ‘The Rockford Files’.
The complete set is up at the new TGP (in much higher quality than it is at Christian’s site).
We’ll never know if Bob Carlos Clarke would have been the heir to Helmut Newton’s art-porn crown but since his untimely suicide his work’s moved from being erotica’s low-cost best buy, to an easy way to spend twenty grand on a fast growing art-cult.
His photo’s are amazing though. Unless you founded Facebook you can’t afford to buy anything, but his dealer site is a great introduction to porn’s own Jeff Buckley (died too soon, fantastically talented, doomed to be deified).
MILF = Men I’d Like to Fuck
“He knows my body p e r f e c t l y and knows exactly how to make me squirm with pleasure and always knows the right thing to say.”
Reconciling Desire & Reality (part 2)
“The excitement of sharing her, the excitement of my arousal THEORETICALLY should mean a heightening of our own sex life.”
Mr. Sugasm Himself
Our fearless leader tells me he’s crazy busy so I’m presenting one from the vaults.
The best of this week’s blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
This Week’s Picks Urgent
“Feel the electricity from my fingers as I peel the damp cotton of your panties away from your sex, as I ease them to one side.”
We’re doing this for the 100th time. That makes Sugasm the most effective online community of sex-bloggers who aren’t actively involved in having sex with each other in history. Kudos all round and massive, un-repayable thanks to the quiet and gorgeous energy behind the Sugasm Radical Vixen whose name says it all.
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This Week’s Picks
Do you want me…?
“The shiver that runs through you tells me everything I need to know.”
When ‘Comdex’ was the world’s largest trade-show, a brave storage exhibitor shocked – SHOCKED! – Vegas by decorating their stand with women dressed in rubber catsuits. They were the exact shade of blue as the booth they were in, meaning a number of people only realized they were there when they lent against them and traded their floppy for a hard-drive. The following year provocative outfits were banned and a couple of years after that Comdex was an ex-show.
In Russia no such qualms prevent magazines from selling their car magazine via topless body-painted spokes-models. If you don’t buy a subscription immediately they start the faux-lezzy moves. Luckily for us cameras were present.
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This Week’s Picks Cuffed
“She could see that he had something concealed in his other hand, but couldn’t quite tell whether it would be an instrument of torture or pleasure.”
Lunch Hour
“He’s very good, but I notice the almost imperceptible start as he notices what’s going on.”
About size
“But if we’re going to start talking about penis size, then it is only fair to talk about vagina size.”
“And it was lovely, because the movements made by his fist inside me were so different to a cock.”
The Razor, the Tape and the Man
“He’s never known this lack of control, this unstoppable surge of orgasm, this wave of ecstasy soldiers crossing his territory.”
For their most popular models they’ve posted audio clips, which provide a rare chance to hear what models like… for instance… Kyla Cole – actually sound like.
Mystique Magazine is a high-budget website devoted to softcore poses of well known models in exotic locales. Their model of the year, decided by online vote, wins a shoot in a glamorous location which, as it’s basically a paid holiday, makes them very popular with talent. In efforts to win the prize many models send Mystique as much traffic as they can.
In the past they’ve been operated in the Playboy mold, apparent in their determination to label what’s basically a web operation as a magazine, but as Playboy fades in profitability they’ve decided to change their approach. While Mystique, like Playboy, used to lock its content away and try to bully browsers into buying, the most successful new adult sites give away a lot of content and hope to persuaded people to join after getting a chance to experience what’s on offer – Kisses and Candlesticks. It works and recognizing this Mystique have ‘borrowed’ a lot of ideas and re-launched with an emphasis on making free content easy to find.
The best thing about their new site is, unsurprisingly, their sole prominent innovation. For their most popular models they’ve posted audio clips, which provide a rare chance to hear what models like… for instance… Kyla Cole – actually sound like.
Most of their ‘Top Rated Models‘ (just below mid right of page) have audio. As usually these women are only heard pretending to orgasm or reading a script there’s something exciting about just listening to them talk. You feel as if you’re getting to know them in the way you do eavesdropping on strangers at a restaurant. I’m sure there are more but Katia Corriveau, Linda O’Neil, Aria Giovanni, Jennifer Korbin, Divini Rae, Zdenka Podkapova, Rebecca DiPietro, Amiee Rickards and Erica Campbell can all be heard right now and I think they’d be smart to post longer, more podcastable, audio.
Unfortunately in their rush to ape the competition Mystique have started a megapixel race with their competitors. For years Peter “Mr. Luba” Hegre has been advertising images at up to 6000px and Mystique are now posting shots at 3000px (a quarter of Hegre’s size).
The problem is, while Hegre shoots with Medium Format digital back which takes ultra-high resolution 39 megapixel stills, Mystique appear to have simply blown their old content up. E.g. here’s a 100% crop of “Ira Shakira” from Hegre. You can see it’s in focus and shows a wealth of real detail:
100% crop of Ira Sahkira at 3000 pixels courtesy Hegre Art
As opposed to this from Mystique which is clearly an enlargement/expansion of a smaller file.
100% crop of Kyla Cole at 3000 pixels courtesy Mystique.
There’s no real detail and claiming this is a ‘high resolution’ image is a lie (you can also see the difference in color correction. Kyla’s image is ten shades of brown). If Mystique do have real high-resolution images on the site it’s madness to mix them with enlargements like this which will only upset users and undermine their credibility.
If Mystique give me access to the site I’ll come back with a fuller review and any necessary corrections. For now I’d say enjoy their new library of free material, check out the audio clips and don’t believe the hype. Their content is sadly still no richer than the rapidly aging 800-1000px industry standard.
Sometimes you meet a meme you just have to throw your support behind even if in this case the behind doesn’t appear to need any support.
People have started getting naked in public and then posting the evidence to Craigslist. If this isn’t real, it’s such a wonderful idea I hope giving it my full support will inspire other people to make it happen. I promise to keep on top of this story.
Women should know most men still consider them naked in fuck-me pumps and make-up. No need to overdo it…
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How To Set Up an MFM Threesome
“You’d be surprised how many guys will say they can’t wait to bed her down, then chicken out or not show up after you’ve shelled out money for a hotel room.”
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This Week’s Picks Fat can be sexy
“I understand what it’s like to be surrounded by images that reinforce that skinny is the ONLY way to achieve sexiness.”
“She performs astounding acts and swirls her perfect ass in circles, like the tassles on her tits.”
Nylon Whispers
“I run my fingers along every bit of my nylon covered flesh”
No Timeless Beauty To Conform To
“While fashions themselves come and go, so do the standards of beauty rise and fall like the heaving breasts of an excited woman.”
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This Week’s Picks Kinky To Vanilla
“Now, each time we play with others, it’s a gift that further cements our closeness and shows us the value of our love.”
One For The Guys
“Get into the habit of building your sexual pleasure and indulging in it fully.”
When A Client Dies-Part 2
“As I drank my morning coffee I googled his name and “obit”. Up popped his obituary.”
Tack plus time equals expensive collectible artwork.
July 17th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 19th, 2007
The most famous sexy poster of all time has just been reissued for, and this is not a typo, $300.
The new version is printed on canvas (because photos + fabric = art) and is a limited edition of 1,850 signed by Martin Elliot, the photographer behind the 1976 original. I remember seeing this growing up but was too young to know what the fuss was about. When you’re a kid this is just a picture of a woman walking away.
To put a couple of urban myths to bed, no it’s not a man and yes, she was his girlfriend.
In the Beginning
“The actual piercing was exquisite – one fraction of a second of pain, followed by a feeling of pleasure like I have never experienced.”
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July 4th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 19th, 2007
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
This Week’s Picks Ménage
“Sometimes, she’s even more the centre of things than he is, since she is a more recent addition to the dynamic, and since we both adore her.”
Money and Sex
“And then in walks sex, #1 potential button pusher of all times.”
Denied – 11
“There’s a click, and a lifting of restriction, and cool, soothing moistness.”
The Anniversary Present (perverselypoly.blogspot.com…)
“But I knew that nothing would be more appropriate to the new path we’ve chosen than a threesome with another man on the night celebrating our wedding so many years ago.”
June 26th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 18th, 2007
Diora Baird.
Diora Baird has been disrupting trousers since her appearance in Wedding Crashers which she quickly followed with an appearance in Playboy and it’s customary elevation of her career to dim bimbo status.
She’s still unarguably lovely, even if without Playboy’s photoshopping her implants are looking a little octagonal. This FHM France set isn’t brand new but hell, I read French so you don’t have to and I doubt you’ve seen it.
Finding the online arm of a magazine without a website.
June 25th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 18th, 2007
Front magazine, a UK based lad mag, doesn’t have a website but instead uses an official MySpace page to publish online. This fuckwittery strategy means their visibility in the sex bloggosphere is far lower than it should be. No pictures, no blog posts.
Thus I was pleased to recently discover their Flickr stream. It’s not in any way a website but at least offers a lightly censored was to get a taste of each issue without dropping the bucks on their dead-tree product, a nice bonus being the absence of commentary which might interfere with your enjoyment of their toplessbarnyardphoptography.
A free porn repository polluted with pseudo child porn.
June 25th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 18th, 2007
The Swedes who brought the world ‘The Pirate Bay’ have just launched bayimg, another assault on copyright which proudly refuses to recognize intellectual property or censor uploaders. That makes is a Flickr like dump of images with less elegant organization but a lot more porn.
In fact it’s almost all porn.
Navigation comes via a un-alphabetized tag cloud which challenges my intellect in ways only double bows on my shoes have before and, as you’d expect, finding scans on this months Playboy and other well protected material is pretty easy.
Their claim not to censor is easy to refute. Searches for tags like ‘lolita’ and ‘young’ thankfully draw a blank and shows they’re not interested in helping child-abusers. Unfortunately they don’t seem to be working too hard on their censorware as I found the ‘preteen’ tag in a few more clicks and, though it failed to pull any explicit child porn, it is well stocked with the ‘Little Model’ material which feeds paedophiles technically innocent shots of exploited kids.
CP’s a ‘know it when you see it’ deal and anyone re-posting shots of little girls in bikinis and lingerie branded with paysite URL’s should know exactly what’s going on and choose not to deal in abusive crap. I don’t think the guys behind bayimg site are trying to hurt anyone but seem too interested in making a buck to ensure they can do it with a clear conscience. They should have more banned tags and at allowed viewers to report abuse. Until they do they’ve built a cesspit without a drain so I’m hoping they’ll read this and take appropriate action before too many other people notice the stench.
An interesting idea let down by execution so poor it’s hard to justify. One to check back on when they’ve cleaned up their act.
A look at Helmut Newton's life and work through the eyes of his wife.
June 13th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 19th, 2007
Helmut by June is an HBO wankumentary shot by his wife and covering Newton behind the camera from his late eighties peak to his death at 75 in 2004. Though he never fully recovered from being daubed ‘the king of kink’ by Time magazine, a periodical which doesn’t know the difference between a hot lemon and a hot lunch, Helmut Newton did more to popularize softcore erotica and fetish than anyone in the last twenty years.
Even though getting people excited about nudes of Cindy Crawford wasn’t hard, Newton pushed far harder than many people know. This is a man who said:
“(models are) a commodity…paid to be made into what I want.”
Despite which deriding his work now marks you as a philistine, not a progressive hater of porn, regardless of the fact much of his work would only look out of place in Hustler thanks to its quality.
The Doc’s now showing all the time on HBO, don’t be put off by the presence of Brett Ratner, he really has almost nothing to do with it.
Early nudes of Kate Moss at auction in London struggle to exceed weekly coke budget.
June 3rd, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 13th, 2007
Kate Moss.
Nude photographs of Kate Moss dating from the start of her career, up through the late 1990’s, recently sold at auction for a total of £183,000 (~$366,000).
It’s not hard to see models nude, flipping through your average non-US fashion magazine is an amateur nipple Safari, but original prints of Kate in her prime are obviously worth something to celebrity MILF hunters. Your arousal may vary.
May 25th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 13th, 2007
…is probably Babeonaut. With 500-600 posts a day it’s like drinking from a babe spewing fire-hydrant.
Surf with your eyes (because links are so 1998), click through to what you like, subscribe and get bigger photos in the RSS feed.
Total overkill or… please Xenu, blessings and peace be upon you… pretty useful. Take a look and if/when it breaks feel good about being one of the first people to see it.
May 24th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 12th, 2007
Normally stock photography has the sex appeal of a lightly oiled Dick Cheney but Crestock have arranged a competition designed to buck that trend.
‘Feeling Sexy’ was the theme for the second round of their photo contest and submissions ranged from meerkats, which I’ll go out on a limb and say aren’t very sexy (they aren’t cats either but that’s another discussion), through to some quality horn featuring a range of scenarios, sexes and species.
This has to be my favorite. This horny monkey wants pussy.
May 18th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 12th, 2007
There’s probably an important message in these images which addresses the infantilization of nation sunder threat, the eroticism of loss, and the sexuality of fear.
A little exclusive for you.
Justine Joli was asked to become the living embodiment of Israeli-American illustrator Kukula’s Kukulaland – don’t ask, it’s something to do with feeling five years old, sex and making money selling T-Shirts. She has obliged and the result is a set of striking, manga-type pictures which seem as artistic as they do designed to turn you on.
There’s probably an important message in these images which addresses the infantilization of nation sunder threat, the eroticism of loss, and the sexuality of fear. Alternatively it may just be a peek at the fucked-up-doll-world in Kukula’s head. Whatever, JJ looks hot, she’s half naked (her second most appealing look) and those breasts are a work of art.
The only other way to see these images is to Join Justine’s site (worth doing and no, I’m not paid to say that even if I did have something to do with how it looks) – her originals are more than twice as large and clear imagery is important for, you know, art and stuff…
(Pictures like this are how Justine pays or food, please play nice and don’t upload them to other sources. Link here if you need to – the bandwidth is on me).
May 14th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 12th, 2007
…even in 2007 few people understand what an artist with the ability to do more than crop, paste and colorize can do if asked.
The most beautiful models – the really famous ones – are intimidatingly flawless genetic exceptions as atypical as Stephen Hawking and Michael Jordan but in far less inspiring ways. For the rest of us trolls there’s Photoshop and even in 2007 few people understand what an artist with the ability to do more than crop, paste and colorize can do if asked.
Normally changes tend towards the subtle but because it’s easiest to start as close to your intended result as possible. If you have the skill, the inclination and the armagnac (the secret of all great creative personalities) but not the models to match, you can remake people Steve Austin style as this video shows.
Hence the ’she looks like what?’ faces you see at porn conventions and the make-up artists who travel with most major celebrities. Depressing until you realise it vaults the person you’re diddling into the ranks of world-class poon.
May 8th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 11th, 2007
She’s never been naked on camera before and by the time Kern’s charmed her clothes off she’s happily posing for a porn magazine she can’t name.
Richard Kern is one of the few pornographers who gets to shoot hardcore while retaining his artistic and indie cred (it’s easy to have indie credibility but harder to be talented too).
For all my attempts to present the unvarnished business end of porn, this short documentary makes being a jizz-bizz shooter seem like everything you’ve always masturbated to thought it was.
Sophie, Kern’s subject and his fan, is too good to be true and if central casting sent me someone with her Amélie-meets-Emmanuelle French accent I’d accuse them of over-egging the pudding and ask them to provide me with a more realistic sex-kitten. She’s never been naked on camera before and by the time Kern’s charmed her clothes off she’s happily posing for a porn magazine she can’t name.
April 24th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 9th, 2007
I remember seeing a book dedicated to the cards posted by London’s prostitutes in telephone boxes. The cards have since been made illegal and therefore fractionally harder to find, but any tourist can find thousands of them papering the walls of our famous red phones, making talking to your mother difficult (unless she’s someone else’s MILF and you’re a mother lover).
Designed to convey a phone-number and brief menu along with a description of the sex-service provider, the cards tackle the issue of describing the women they promote with the same forthright honesty we’ve come to expect from the White House press office. Believe the cards and know that most of porn valley is making ends meet selling bareback blowjobs in flats along the Edgeware road (we all know they stay in the 818 and only visit hotels). Putting ‘actual photo’ beside a picture of Tera Patrick and claiming she’s a 22 year old Japanese tranny isn’t seen as any big thing (I know it’s not her ‘cos I’ve been back three times and it’s always the same dude. Tell him Sam sent you).
The Bunny House blogs hooker flyers from South America and, due to a lack of access to DTP software and cheap color inkjets, the level of creativity on display is high. They putting the ‘uc’ back in folk art and, for someone with no allusions to being a whoremonger, the prices are eye-wateringly cheap. $10 is the price of a Big Mac meal in London – does she even undress? If so what’ll she do for a KFC family bucket? (or is the “KFC Family bucket” a sex act “Big Mac” will perform for the $10?)
My favorite provider to date is Paula, because after a session with her you can claim to have gone out for a haircut and still pass any polygraph test known to man (and she doesn’t have a cock. That works for me too.)
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April 10th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 6th, 2007
Tara Tainton.
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This Week’s Picks History: Marlene on the Wall (http://thismuse.blogspot.com)
“3AM, showering, head, his hands soapy on my breasts, I’m thankful I’ve dropped weight, the water is warm and cool enough to feel like bed.”
Afternoon Debauchery (http://junohenry.wordpress.com)
“Occasionally he’d push it further inside me, from where it had involuntarily escaped due to slickness and enthusiastic vibrations.”
Too Many Choices (http://bikersballsandteacherstits.blogspot.com)
“We’d been naked most of the time since getting here on Friday, so I wasn’t surprised when I reached under her skirt and found that she wasn’t wearing any panties.”
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
April 4th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 6th, 2007
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This Week’s Picks Dawn Tryst (http://junohenry.wordpress.com)
“The soft noises intensify as he shifts himself once more so that he is turned towards her and his fingertips on her body are mimicking hers on his own.”
The G-Spot Mystery Revealed OR “ACK! Go Back to My Clit” (http://shayssexcolumn.blogspot.com)
“So, since I’ve succumbed to the pressure, let me at least reveal to you the things you might not know about the g-spot, the things Cosmo doesn’t want you to know.”
M Hotel 2 (http://thenakedrhetoricaltruth.blogspot.com)
“I watch his face as his hands pull me open, and then I close my eyes, my arms stretched above my head, as he lowers his face.”
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
March 27th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 6th, 2007
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #73? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the linklist within a week and you’re all set.
This Week’s Picks Big-Titted Muses (http://middleurge.blogspot.com)
“In the span of fifteen seconds, these two lovers instantly own the room, the camera, the cock.”
Make it happen (http://junohenry.wordpress.com)
“Dip two strawberries in the chocolate, eat one and feed me the other.”
Water, Water Everywhere… (http://thismuse.blogspot.com)
“He pauses there, feeling the weight in his hands, then soaps my breasts, rubbing the nipples between his fingers and thumb.”
A reality show pilot about life behind the porn lens.
March 25th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 5th, 2007
…how many people will incorrectly assume all porn shooters are as smart, caring and honest as the Randalls…
I’m told this mini-doc is part of the pitch for a show detailing the lives of Suze and Holly Randall, two of the best known erotic photographers, unique in having enough combined star wattage to make the prospect of seeing them on TV interesting.
The biggest problem, should this show ever reach broadcast, is knowing how many people will incorrectly assume all porn shooters are as smart, caring and honest as the Randalls. Aspartame but true.
Cut to crying fan of the show asking sweaty, recently-sated photographer “Are you going to make me a star now? It wasn’t like this on TV…”
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March 20th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 5th, 2007
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #72? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the linklist within a week and you’re all set.
This Week’s Picks
Roué (http://www.easilyaroused.co.uk)
“Her sighs of contentment build as my touch does its work.”
Wrong Number (http://radicalvixen.com/blog)
“They said clients were trying to call me and getting this restaurant instead.”
Ride to the Cabin (http://eroticawriter.blogspot.com)
“As he pulled into a dark lane that led into a grove of trees, I reached over to stroke him.”
Mr. Sugasm Himself Loveland (http://sugarbank.com)
Editor’s Choice Your hair (http://erotischism.blogspot.com)
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
February 28th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 4th, 2007
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
This Week’s Picks First Client (http://thismuse.blogspot.com)
“He buries his nose in my pussy, licks me while I suck him, rubs his mouth up and down me.”
His point of view (http://junohenry.wordpress.com)
“Once he shut the door — urgently, impatiently, with a deft kick of his heel and a satisfying thud as the lock caught, all vestiges of decorum disappeared.”
Why is my sex ed class so sticky? (http://deliciously-naughty.typepad.com)
“This game was played for NINE years, and it’s only this year that parents are writing the school board?”
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
February 25th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 4th, 2007
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
This Week’s Picks First Orgasm (http://deliciously-naughty.typepad.com)
“His thumbs begin to stroke my nipples, and I watched my breath, coming out in little puffs of air, quicken.”
It’s in the Genes (http://www.sex-kitten.net/home.html)
“I found old magazines disguised as photography and drawing magazines but were actually full of nude women and some men […]“
February 16th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 4th, 2007
Greg Williams is one of the world’s greatest photographers whose work you’ve undoubtedly seen without knowing it’s the handiwork of a young Englishman who got his start shooting warfighters in Burma, Chechnya and Sierra Leone. It’s likely you’ve seen his work on the last James Bond poster, or covering the cast of ‘The Departed’ for Vanity Fair but you don’t often see someone with as much skill as Greg turn his hand to erotica.
The best porn shooters are mid-range commercial photographers at best, there are none who can lay claim to sharing an agent with Annie Liebowitz and Ellen von Unworth. The difference in quality between no-expense spared erotic photography and the Abercrombie and Fitch wannabe softcore more commonly seen is immediately tangible when you view the good stuff. This image on William’s site stopped me in my tracks and made me wonder if there’s a market for erotic images of this quality.
Would anyone else pay to see photographs taken by the best, of the best models, with nothing else in mind than creating sublime carnality? Can the economics of porn be made to work when a day’s shooting costs over $50,000 or does no one care about the difference between killer and (good but not great) filler? Does everything masturbatory have to be shamed into being second tier?
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
February 13th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 4th, 2007
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
This Week’s Picks Black Tie Optional; Cleavage Required. (http://middleurge.blogspot.com)
“It had been so long since she’d worn something like this, I had to keep checking in and making sure she was really comfortable with appearing in public looking this… well, sexy.”
Don’t Be A Blog Playa (http://marketingwhore.naughtyblog.net)
“Blogging is often treated like dating, where folks fall in love with setting it up, posting some ramblings, and when no one gushes and fawns all over them, they move onto the next one.”
Eclectic Slut part one (http://junohenry.wordpress.com)
“As we lay, limbs entwined and tangled, realising that we couldn’t stop touching each other even for a second, the conversation returned to one we’d started earlier… about control and submission.”
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
February 6th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 4th, 2007
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
This Week’s Picks Motel Meeting (http://lafillemariee.blogspot.com)
“As always though, coming together for us meant first holding, then kissing, groping, stroking, and suddenly, there we were, as always, naked, lying together, limbs intertwined on DG’s bed under the cozy, thick white duvet.”
My breasts are not safe for work – welcome to the pink ghetto (http://lustylady.blogspot.com)
“I love to find out things about people’s sex lives and thinking about sex that make me see them, and the topic at hand, in a new light, and often I learn about myself that way.”
Richard Evans Lee (http://www.sex-kitten.net)
“An increase in sexual empathy. Being able to put yourself in the other person’s heart would curb everything from infidelity to homophobia.”
Mr. Sugasm Himself (that’s me) Sexual Chocolate (http://sugarbank.com)
January 30th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 4th, 2007
These pictures of resistors and LED’s getting buck-nasty aren’t new to me but as the other big sex/porn blogs haven’t picked up on them I’m guessing you might not have seen them.
If this turns you on – seek help.
NB: All over the web these photos are being labeled ’sex circuits’. As a pedant with a degree in microelectronics I can’t perpetuate the fallacy. These are components and pervy sculpture, circuits are different. Lesson over, back to your books children.
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
January 30th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 4th, 2007
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
This Week’s Picks Arrogant Penis (http://www.sex-kitten.net)
“When I start to relax, adrift in the warm comfy seas of a powerful orgasm, my body slackening (and lord knows how my face looks), aware of nothing but how fabulous this is and ready to ride the waves into slumber, he doesn’t stop.”
Bewitch Me! (http://perverselypoly.blogspot.com)
“I’m big enough to pin you down while I move my hands up and down the sides of your body, feeling its contours beneath the black fabrics you so favor.”
Unicorn Sighting, Part II (http://loladavid.wordpress.com)
“There was one man in the very front of the theatre who didn’t give a damn who heard him moan as he came.”
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
January 16th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 4th, 2007
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as voted for by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #63? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form.
This Week’s Picks Slut (http://lafillemariee.blogspot.com)
“I fucked one man at the request of another, in exactly the way asked for. Then I reported what happened to the one who requested it.”
When Clients Look Like Relatives (http://radicalvixen.com/blog)
“I walked out the door, saw a man standing there and almost puked.”
Low Class Stripper? Classism and society’s view of adult entertainment (http://fullfrontalpolitics.com)
“For a lot of women sex work is a last-ditch option, something we all consider in the back of our minds when we’re growing up; we ask ourselves once or twice, if we needed the money, would we strip?”
January 9th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 4th, 2007
Last year I, and my penis, fell in love with Tuuli.
I didn’t know this diplomats daughter, raised in Russia, was also Rankin’s muse at the time, but she did do enough to the normally calm environs of my underwear to prompt me to post these photos of her having sex from Arena. Pure demi-porn.
Today I received a copy of ‘Tuulitastic‘ – a “photographic love letter” to the woman Rankin can’t stop shooting. If you have ever thought a blonde was attactive this book will turn your mind to shit. It’s like being inside Brian de Palma’s head after it’s been filled with fembots and flashlights.
Every time I look at this book I want to shoot Tuuli’s face too. Rankin’s a lucky boy.
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
January 4th, 2007 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 4th, 2007
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
This Week’s Picks Me, Her, and Him 3 (http://erotischism.blogspot.com)
“But as sexually satisfied as he kept Kendall — or as satisfied as one man could — she was yearning for another kind of action.”
Polyamory vs. Polyfuckery (http://perverselypoly.blogspot.com)
“I admire Rachel’s altruism, despite her saying it’s a practical matter of what it takes to get her wet.”
A is for Abandon (http://redvelvetropeburn.com)
“The hands pressed into her lower back and she wanted to ask Him if He had felt them but her orgasm overtook her and she lost all conscious thought for a few moments.”
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
December 26th, 2006 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 4th, 2007
Aria Giovanni.
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. Want in Sugasm #61? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the linklist within a week and you’re all set.
“There were limits to what could be done where there was any discernible level of visibility. But I was familiar with these limits and had enjoyed them before.”
In Praise of Older Men (http://perverselypoly.blogspot.com)
“I would expect her to have at least one lad on the side, and perhaps more.”
A Nawty Story: Cookies and Cream (http://anawtymouz.blogspot.com)
“I pull my hand away from her pussy and sniff her fragrances on my fingers.”
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
December 22nd, 2006 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 4th, 2007
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
This Week’s Picks By Invitation Only (http://dirtylittlecockslut.blogspot.com)
“I was being watched by a room full of people, but all I could think about was his thick cock, pounding me, his balls slapping against my ass.”
Love that aural sex (http://junohenry.wordpress.com)
“…The lazy way your honeyed tones flow out, saying my name, or merely whispering “Is that good, baby? You like that?” as you slide a finger in and out of me, deliberately and slowly.”
What BDSM Can Tell Us All About Sex (part 1) (http://perverselypoly.blogspot.com)
“That’s another form of power exchange: if I ‘let’ you have sex with someone else, it’s very different than if you sneak off and fuck that person without having permission.”
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
December 13th, 2006 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 3rd, 2007
The best of this weeks blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
This Week’s Picks 6 weird things about me (http://hard-and-fast.blogspot.com)
“I’ve masturbated to completion more than 13,000 times.”
Polygamy, chastity, and sexual pragmatics (http://www.realadultsex.com)
“Lest you think the “sister-wives” could always take matters into their own or each other’s hands…”
What a woman wants (http://junohenry.wordpress.com)
“Tell me about the couple who would have you fuck the wife, and the husband watch.”
Mr. Sugasm Himself My Bare Lady (http://sugarbank.com)
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
December 10th, 2006 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 3rd, 2007
This best of the sex blogs from the bloggers who blog them.
This Week’s Picks The Other Side of Hotwifery (http://junohenry.wordpress.com)
“Since he had been so cavalier about it prior to my ever actually going through with such an event, I had given almost no thought to how it might affect him.”
The Blender (http://radicalvixen.com/blog)
“You want to pick me? Did I win a contest?”
Meeting in a Car – part one (http://emergingontheotherside.blogspot.com)
“His tongue teased hers, and her lips teased his in retaliation”
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
November 29th, 2006 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 3rd, 2007
This best of the sex blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Want in Sugasm #57? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form.
This Week’s Picks Same Time Next Year (http://nocloudnine.blogspot.com)
“She nodded again, grabbing the doorframe as she pushed against the finger.”
Fuck me- it’s friday. (http://dirtylittlecockslut.blogspot.com)
“I won’t pretend to be coy- because I know what I want.”
Sexual Things You Don’t Know About Me (http://www.taratainton.com)
“My own erotic inner self has been piqued these last few days by a wonderful fantasy; maybe I can help pique yours by sharing.”
“Next-gen vibrator gives everything you and your partner need to enjoy music
and music-activated vibrations at the same time.
Even works with a Zune : -) ”
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
November 22nd, 2006 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 3rd, 2007
The best of the sex blogs by the bloggers who blog them:
This Week’s Picks To Tell or Not to Tell… (http://lipstickexplosion.com)
“Jane Falling claims it’s best not to tell, and she writes, ‘my identity as a prostitute is too serious a secret to trust with near-strangers.’”
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
November 19th, 2006 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 3rd, 2007
I’m kinda behind on the Sugasm reposts in a way which would ge tme kicked off the thing permenatly if it hadn’t been my idea to start with.
Sorry. I fucked up. Still more good stuff to discover right!? WHO’S WITH ME!
While looking at the floor and mumbling something about ‘busy’…
Sugasm #52 Waxed (http://edinerotica.blogspot.com)
“After polishing off my testicles and perineum, Sam started on the area above and around my cock.”
Office Inspiration (http://emergingontheotherside.blogspot.com)
“You moans are quite loud now – presumably because everyone else has left the building and you don’t care.”
Home cooking, part 2 (http://erotischism.blogspot.com)
“A moan escaped her as the smooth richness hit her.”
Sugasm #53 PUMPkin Carving – Not Just For Kids! (http://shayssexcolumn.blogspot.com)
“Just carve a vaginal plug and a clit stimulator into the side of your pumpkin and rub your way to Halloween ecstasy.”
Dildo Dinner (http://radicalvixen.com/blog)
“Check to see if dildos are cooking up properly.”
Flying in the Face of Censorship (http://www.suzanneportnoy.com)
“But these days, the UK is Europe’s frisky frontier, and the hotties are flying in from all over.”
Life as an Adult Cam Worker (http://www.model-chat.com)
“Experiment with days and times to find out what’s the best time for you to be on live.”
October 15th, 2006 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 3rd, 2007
Just over a year ago I published the first informal porn-site cross post, then titled the bloggasm, at this very blog. Since then following a name-change, an unscheduled hiatus, a handover to a pair of glamorous and capable assistants, and another forty-nine posts we’ve now reached Sugasm #50 which will publish this week.
Things have grown from a start with just six links to over 60 in #50. The blog now has a few hundred subscribers and getting featured as an ‘Editor’s Choice’ can provide the kind of attention normally reserved for Lindsey Lohan’s genitals on a gossip blog.
The best of the sex blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
October 10th, 2006 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 3rd, 2007
The best of the sex blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
This Week’s Picks Fantasies to order (http://junohenry.wordpress.com)
“Then another tongue enters my mouth and i completely forget how to process thought.”
Afternoon Victory (http://theholidaylife.blogspot.com)
“I want between his thighs without any hindrance.”
Rub My Back (http://mandyseroticlife.blogspot.com)
“I stroked his long shaft with my other hand until I knew he couldn’t stand much more.”
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
September 30th, 2006 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 3rd, 2007
The best of the sex blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
This Week’s Picks The Luckiest Girl in the World (http://alwaysarousedgirl.blogspot.com)
“Would he have the energy, the stamina, to make me come as much as I need to come?”
I Want To Shave You (http://makemycopcome.blogspot.com)
“That luscious plum, that erotic ridge around it, the enticing veins tracing their way up that cock I am so engrossed in…”
The Rum Raisin Compromise (http://talktovanessa.com)
“My husband did not understand why I couldn’t live the rest of my life without the taste of a woman passing my lips.”
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
September 19th, 2006 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 3rd, 2007
The best of the sex blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
This Week’s Picks Lazy Sunday (http://www.chillivanilla.com)
“I flick my thumb across your clit, as if I were lighting a match, which, in many ways I am.”
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
September 5th, 2006 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 3rd, 2007
The best of the sex blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
This Week’s Picks Foreplaying pool (http://gentlygently.blogspot.com)
“‘What say we make this interesting,’ I began while circling the table looking at the available shots, ‘If I win, I get a kiss.’”
All Tied up (part 6): The End (http://dirtyandthirty.blogspot.com)
“To cut a very long story short (well, not quite that short), the evening finished with me cumming all over Thirty’s beautiful body.”
Tableau of sensuality (http://junohenry.wordpress.com)
“Use your other hand to explore further South… tickle that sensitive area around my navel… stroke the silkiness a little further below… and then you’ll find that silky soon becomes slick, plump and moist.”
July 20th, 2006 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 3rd, 2007
I’m amazed at how often images I download from the web haven’t been properly touched-up. If you’re posting photos to the web, and have no idea how to make them look better – and those sliders can get confusing – here are 5 ‘dumb’ Photoshop tips guaranteed to improve things without requiring any talent.
Start by making a copy of your image because screwing-up an original hurts.
Our original is an old movie poster which has been roughly photographed. It’s faded, yellowed and looking nasty. Most images are in way better shape than this extreme example and so the results you’ll get following these steps will be considerably more impressive.
Modern digital cameras take images far too big to display online in most circumstances so the first job is usually to downsize. Technically it’s better to make resizing an image the very last stage as the more data you work with the better your results. However, working with more data is also slow, and the differences between approaches so negligible in most circumstances the additional speed’s worth going for.
Here’s a section of the image at it’s original resolution.
It’s pretty chunky. Not for long.
Image > Image Resize. Use the ‘bicubic’ setting but ignore ‘bicubic sharper’ or ‘bicubic softer’ – it’s smarter to do one thing at a time. Photoshop does a horrible job resizing GIFs so save those files in another format before resizing.
Which leaves us with this.
The image looks orange because age has faded the ink. Similar effects can be caused by bad camera settings, or the wrong kind of light. A real retoucher could use the ‘curves’ tools in Photoshop to pull the colors back into line. That takes skill though so we’ll just…
Image > Adjust > Auto Levels. This is pretty close to magic. Photoshop analyzes the colors in an image and ’stretches’ them to provide the maximum range of color variation. In effect it can automatically remove color ‘casts’ – often in images where you can’t even tell they’re present. 90% of the time it makes you look like a genius.
Amazing. Of course, the color’s not perfect and sometimes the ‘Adjust Levels’ tool can make things worse, introducing a cast of its own. If you have any areas of pure black or white in your photo they can stop ‘Auto Levels’ from doing it’s thing so if it’s not working, try selecting them out of the image and running the tool again. If ‘Auto Levels’ won’t cooperate at all, Image > Adjust > Auto Contrast, normally does the trick.
Our poster’s still pretty un-natural looking, what color is her hair anyway? There’s another ‘auto’ tool that can help.
Image > Adjust > Auto Color. More magic done by adjusting colors levels, this time to find the right balance, not just to maximize range.
You might argue this change isn’t an improvement as it’s a little less vivid than the last version, but there are clues that it is, even without a copy of the poster in good shape to reference. Firstly they shadows are now more grey wheras in the last version they were tinged blue. We can also see that she’s a blonde and it just looks more ‘right’.
If you’re adjusting an image of your own look for areas which you ‘know’ are a specific shade. Teeth are easy – they should be white or pale yellow. Paying attention to those areas can stop you making ‘improvements’ which have no bearing on reality.
Now we can put a little vaseline on the lens and try to make the model look better with a little digital make-up. It’ll also eliminate blemishes and noise.
Filter > Blur > Surface Blur. Photoshop selectively blurs away imperfections. The ‘Threshold’ number allows you to preserve detail.
The ‘Surface Blur’ filter’s easy to abuse. Overused it makes people look as if they’re made of plastic which some people confuse with glamour. It’s great at improving people’s complexion though, and low doses very subtly ‘airbrush’ models without obliterating their features.
Our poster now looks a bit better cared for and hundreds of little ‘flecks’ have disappeared. I like my images to look pretty natural, but I could have removed a lot more grain than I have.
Now all that’s left is to sharpen.
Filter > Sharpen > Smart Sharpen. You can’t actually sharpen an image after the fact, but increasing the contrast along the edges of objects has the same effect. Whenever an image is reduced in size it loses sharpness and should be sharpened to compensate.
Using ‘Sharpen’ after the blur tool will get back a little ‘punch’, while leaving the flat areas of the image smooth and blemish free. If you’re using ‘Smart Sharpen’ try Amount = 30%, Radius = 0.5, Remove = Lens Blur and select ‘More Accurate’. It’s a decent starting point. If you have an older version of Photoshop try using the less powerful ‘Unsharp Mask’ tool.
Too much sharpening can cause ‘halos’ – pale outlines around objects – and increases file-size, by making noise more visible. If you have time to experiment, sharpen until halos appear and then dial-back until their just invisible for an optimal result.
So where have we got to? Here’s a side-by-side comparison.
Not bad at all, especially considering that no artistic skill was used in making the adjustments.
With the application of a little manual tweaking far more impressive improvements can be achieved but if you’ve no desire to learn any of that, these five steps will make a significant improvement to most of what you shoot. In and out of the bedroom, on and off-set.
The best of the sex-blogs by the bloggers who blog them.
May 23rd, 2006 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: July 2nd, 2007
This week’s best of the sex blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Way later than ususal this week due to much confusion and some generalized screwing up. Sorry.
February 1st, 2006 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: June 28th, 2007
Will Sugasm #20 be the biggest ever? Let’s find out. Leave your links in the comments here or, if you want to email them, please ensure your subject line reads ‘Sugasm #20 – submission’ and then I’ll be able to find it nice and easy.
January 24th, 2006 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: June 28th, 2007
Holy-mother-of-God, these shots of Anita Dark make my tummy feel funny. My porn/art/move-to-Prague-dar are twitching like bastards. Photographers – watch and learn. Models, pray for such good lighting/genes.
January 13th, 2006 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: June 27th, 2007
Now the Sugasm’s officially on a roll, I’m thinking about pushing it even further, expanding it to encompass a group podcast.
Like today’s Sugasm, Sugasm AV would be a compilation of sex-themed content, in audio and video form, glued together by me and podcast weekly. A group podcast will get far more interest (when posted across participating blogs) than anything a single blog could do, and I’ll pay for the bandwidth. Video content would be ideal, but if existing Sugasm participants wanted to make high-qaulity recordings of their text entries and email them in, that’d work too.
It’s an obvious idea (now I’ve had it). I was inspired a couple of weeks ago when, just hours after reading the Sugasm, I saw the best tits I’ve ever come across (when I say come across I mean that literally – open caskets rule.)
So – is there any interest or should I stick this idea with other great missed opportunities like that car I designed which runs on water the Blow-job-o-matic. Sugasmers – talk to me.
If you’re linked from the bloggasm, please repost the all the links above by midnight on Sunday. If you want to be included in the next bloggasm (and get linked from all these killer sites) email sam.sugar@gmail.com.
Update: I messed up this week and missed a link from sexblo.gs (and A perfect marriage! – sorry Ed.) Please update your lists – they’re great blogs and, as this mistake is all Sammy, I’ve informed them that they need only add links to this week’s bloggasm which are reciprocated (that’s a general rule by the way – in case you ever find yourself missing from the pages of a participant – please let me know). Sorry for the inconvienience and the – well let’s call it stupidity.
Will computer graphics make pornstars and phone sex obsolete?
October 30th, 2005 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: June 25th, 2007
Elina.
Countries in Eastern Europe are small and, if they’re lucky, have one city whose name an outsider might recognize but not be able to place on a map. Every weekend young people, minus the boys who’ve turned youthful excess into serious alcoholism before the end of their teens and wander the streets catatonic, go out to party. You can visit ten clubs and leave having seen every beautiful woman in the country, it’s beautiful, easy and numbing. Two of the biggest clubs in the region are within a minute’s walk of my apartment and sometimes, on my way home from somewhere else, I’ll stop by just to take in the view.
The women are tall and graceful with high-cheeks and almond eyes. The men are so average that you wonder who the women breed with in order to produce such spectacular offspring. No one is fat (in the entire country – despite a national cuisine based around fried pork, potatoes and cream), and the only thing keeping most Latvian girls off the catwalk is a dental infrastructure who operate on a ‘if in doubt, file’ principle. The men take the women for granted which is stupid, given a higher concentration of beautiful women than anywhere on the planet bar Brazil. Doctors earn about $400 a month meaning a Latvian trophy-wife is a surprisingly easy to obtain accessory for resident foreigners.
A lot of people who buy the new iMac’s are going to discover that idiot-proof video-conferencing makes phone-sex seem very second best by comparison.
Last Saturday, while leaning on the bar with my drink (whiskey – vodka reminds Russian women of their fathers in the worst way) my Romanian friend Dan grabbed me.
“I have to show you this girl. Amazing!”
He lead me behind the dancefloor, through another club where local strippers were helping guys invest in their economics degrees, into a room above the casino.
“She is a model,” said Dan, introducing me to the woman whose photo accompanies this post. “Sam, meet Elina, Elina this is Sam.”
As so rarely happens in reality, my jaw dropped.
“She’s a model Dan?”
“100%! Model, pure model!” he said.
I was looking at the future. Elina, a woman with lips that make Angelina Jolie’s look like a pair messy flaps, is computer generated. Entirely modeled, with no ‘hand finishing’ involved in her appearance, she’s pure polygons and math. Given enough processing power (like the PC you’ll be buying in 2 years time) she could be animated (should we say live and breathe?) in real time. Welcome to the future of porn.
Sex and computers have always been connected. One of the first widely known attempts at machine intelligence was a piece of software called Eliza, a primitive text only therapist who, despite being less convincingly human as an ATM, managed to keep users occupied for hours. It’s not surprising that even this ostensibly sexless programming exercise was a woman with an exotic name.
Despite the prevalence of sex online, the use of computers as devices for creating sexual experiences, not merely as a means for delivering them recorded as photos or movies, has only just begun. For years a taboo regarding sex and computers, has slowed the creation of digital sexual experiences, supported by two invalid assumptions:
Computer users are sexless nerds
Computer games are for kids, so sexually charged games are morally wrong
With the majority of internet users being female, the average age of a computer game player now 30, and abundant cheap computer power, digital sex is finally about to arrive. It won’t kill the porn movie, or other forms of sex on the web but what it will provide is a range of sexual experiences we don’t have today. The question is what will they be?
We live in a world where our sex lives are enhanced by technology. Many of us have had sex with people we met online, and many more have experienced orgasm while interacting with a chatroom, instant message, voice over IP client, or webcam. Enhancements of these applications is easy, obvious and inevitable.
A lot of people who buy the new iMac’s are going to discover that idiot-proof video-conferencing makes phone-sex seem very second best by comparison. Webcams will get better and HD video will arrive, (making us nostalgic for the flattering haze of compression artifacts that treat our imperfections kindly today.)
The problem with webcams is that reality limits their appeal. Sex-camming is fun if your partner’s cute and well-lit, but what if they’re not. What if you want to have sex as a woman but are a man? Want to have sex in zero-gravity or free of the confines of your wheelchair? A better webcam’s not the answer.
While you can pay to interact with a model of your choice via webcam, the market for sex-cam websites will be dwarfed by any technology that allows people to meet, and interact sexually, with people they have a more genuine relationship with.
The first new sexual realm to develop will be an offshoot of online role-playing games, like Everquest and World of Warcraft. When their graphics are of sufficient quality to make Elina possible, online sex will become more than a niche interest and, for the first time, people will join game universes with the sole objective of interacting sexually within them.
Games won’t have to be built to contain sex in order to make sex possible. In traditional games each player has an objective and missions to complete, ‘open’ games provide an environment within which players can do whatever they want to. With players controlling the other characters you meet, interactions can be as sophisticated as those you enjoy offline. If sex isn’t an ‘official’ part of the experience people will, as they always do, find ways to get what they want. It might be weird but it’ll get people off and that’s always popular.
It’s a small step beyond where we are today that only requires improved graphics. It’ll prove that given the right context, online sex will exist as more than a curiosity, and can become a natural extension of the relationships people have online, as it is offline.
The next step will occur with the launch of more focused sex-game products. Building a game used to mean developing an ‘engine’ to handle the graphics and underlying technology, and the time and expense of doing that set the bar to entry very high indeed. To use a moviemaking metaphor, it was akin to having to design, build and test your cameras before being able to shoot your movie.
Today, for about $750,000, you can buy a license to use a cutting edge ‘game-engine’ developed by someone else. $750,000 is three times more than the budget of a ‘big-budget’ adult movie, but the economics of sex games are far more favorable than the economics of sex movies.
If Vivid Video spend $250,000 on a movie they can sell it for $20 a shot to a certain number of people and then move on to their next movie with a fresh investment of capital. A video game sells for $40-$60, you can charge a monthly subscription for use on the online elements and there’s money to be made from plug-ins and accessories.
With the investment in the ‘game engine’ being a one-off expense, the cost of producing a title decreases as the number of titles published increases. Once the ‘game’ works you can publish the same title repeatedly, changing only the ‘cast’ and scenario, for a production cost of close to zero. This is something the existing game industry can’t do – no one will buy a shoot-em up again simply because the image of the guy holding the gun is different.
Low cost and online distribution will mean that the ’specialization’ of the video market we see today ends up looking restricted compared to the range of options and specialties which appear in the gaming market. As options increase, so will sales (Jenna speaking Chinese in a Chinese game will sell more in China than a subtitled American DVD)
If Vivid video had a video gaming development unit they could be releasing a virtual (ageless, perfect) Jenna each year, using the same technology to drive games featuring each of their contract stars and perhaps even cut deals to offer those models as plug-ins for other games. Your girlfriend in Grand Theft Auto becomes Silvia Saint, with all the skills she brings to bear.
At that point the expense, hassle and health-risks involved in making ‘real’ porn are less appealing. Jenna can continue to sell her likeness for as long as she desires, never need walk onto a porn set again, and her likeness can do things she’d never consent to in reality, perfectly safely. Beyond Jenna, virtual stars like Elina will be able to speak any language, in any market and do anything without compunction or complaint. As purely owned creations they’ll be more profitable to work with than likenesses and make porn without people possible for the first time ever.
The final step will come in 10-15 years when, instead of connecting you to a partner online, your computer becomes your partner itself.
Given the hopeless stupidity of most video game ‘baddies’ this seems hopelessly sci-fi but that won’t last long. At current rates of progress by 2020 the average $1000 PC will have equivalent processing power to the human brain. That’s not to say computers will be smart then, but they will have the processing power required to be, given the right programming. Using all that power to accurately simulate the limited range of possibilities presented by sex isn’t just realistic, it’s inevitable. We’ll be able to program digital partners who know enough about human desire and sexual availability to provide a satisfying sexual interaction – albeit one that’s not very human. Creepy? Perhaps. Profitable? You bet.
The idea that as entertainment moves forward, humans will leave their sexuality behind as an evolutionary relic is ridiculous. The potential for profit is irresistible to sellers and the experiences on offer desired by buyers. Computers as the greatest sex-toys in history? Not if, or when, but soon
September 19th, 2005 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: June 20th, 2007
I’m spending a lot of time working on a redesign of my blogs (SugarBank, PSP Porn and Podnography) to coincide with the launch of a new blog (or two…) and a change of CMS (CMS = Content Management System for all those who are not fat geek motherfuckers – wow I’m angry, bad meth – sorry.) It’s amazingly boring and anal.
I am seriously considering a design which doesn’t feature a picture with every post (as you see here now). Few blogs have pictures of the size I use here, most use none at all. It would make this blog more like most others, easier for me to run and a little less colorful.
So my question is – do you guys like/love the pictures or would you be fine without them? Comment away so I can make a decision that most people agree with.
How registering with the copyright office could save you thousands.
September 18th, 2005 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: June 20th, 2007
If you run a website that publishes images you’ll have experienced having them ‘borrowed’ by other websites for reasons ranging from friendly cross-promotion to outright theft.
Some of you will have asked other webmasters to remove images without success, some may have considered suing, and a few might have hired the Luigi brothers to ’say-it-with-a-dead-pet’ and been surprised at how effective that can be.
Content is worth money and it’s amazing how many people don’t know how to use the copyright office to provide ‘real’ protection of their material at extremely low cost.
This guy (a photographer who successfully sued a client who used his photos outside the scope of their agreement – courtesy of PDN Online, which I read so you don’t have to.) won his case because every 90 days he registers his shots with the copyright office. You should too.
July 2nd, 2005 by Sam Sugar | Last modified: June 18th, 2007
Photograph by Anna and Barney.
The dividing line between porn and art, if it exists at all, is very hard to define. After a long academic study of the subject I’ve decided it comes down to two things.
The education of the person behind the camera
The quality of the lighting
For example – someone who picked up a camera after studying at Harvard can automatically call their work ‘art’ regardless of how bad it looks. Conversely, if the closest you got to performing a scientific experiment was building a water-pipe, but your work looks amazing, again – you’re an artist.
If you’re poorly educated and can’t light for shit you’re a pornographer whatever you tell your friends.
Why is ‘arty’ porn such a cliche?
I’m not thinking about these things because the voices in my head are telling me too (mother’s taking a nap right now. I love you mommy), but because I’ve been looking at the work of Anna and Barney.
Even for German’s it’s pretty hardcore. Women in Burka’s walking around Paris with their VBLT’s out (VBLT = Vertical Bacon Lettuce and Tomato). The picture at the head of this post shows a woman standing in a Burka, naked from the waist down and standing on a grave. It’s like Marylin Manson’s entry in some bizzare piss off a Muslim contest.
If you did that in the name of porn you’d get accused of racial insensitivity and then killed by angry fundamentalists. Mason, an ex-child star who now directs hardcore movies but carefully guards her identity, used to wear a Burka whenever she was photographed but stopped doing so after thinking it through.
Anna and Barney can work to different rules because they’re artists. Who makes that decision? Why is ‘arty’ porn such a cliche?
I think Anna and Barney’s work is beautiful (and less safe for work than handguns and crack). Wouldn’t it be nice if interesting sexual explicit material didn’t have to pretend that that turning people on wasn’t the reason for its existance? Do sex and thought have to be mutually exclusive activities?
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